24th MEB Conference - Budapest, 24.04.2026

We discuss recent global policy elements of the USA as they are, and highlight valid and rational motivations. In the core, we identify rational strategic elements in the wake of the sustainability crisis of the 21st century. The US as the sole superpower aims at saving or even strengthening her position during the crisis; and instead of a higher level of cooperation of optimistic (globally community-optimal) scenarios, highly competitive actions are trivially much safer and more beneficial for an individual (strong) actor in the crisis. There are similarly rational but unconventional elements of US global policy. The world order of the recent half century (the ‘pax Americana’), may seem to be being destroyed by its definitive power; but these steps can be equally nothing else but taking unconventional countermeasures against losing power, as well as preparing for the hardly foreseeable (cataclysmic) movements in the onset of the new era after the sustainability breakdown.